[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":173},["ShallowReactive",2],{"\u002Ftalking-dc-vote-blues":3},{"id":4,"title":5,"body":6,"createdAt":161,"description":12,"draft":162,"extension":163,"image":164,"mastodonThread":164,"meta":165,"navigation":166,"path":167,"seo":168,"stem":12,"tags":169,"updatedAt":171,"__hash__":172},"content\u002FTalking DC Vote Blues.md","Talking_DC_Vote_Blues",{"type":7,"value":8,"toc":157},"minimark",[9,13,16,29,37,40,46,58,79,94,109,121,133,145],[10,11,12],"p",{},"Talking DC Vote Blues",[10,14,15],{},"(I'm still working on the music, but it will be a talking-blues pattern for most of it).",[10,17,18,19,22,23,25,26,28],{},"Today I saw an analysis of historical Presidential Elections and how close they",[20,21],"br",{},"\nwere. They did a mathematical analysis to determine the smallest number of",[20,24],{},"\nvotes it would take to change the outcome of an election. This depends on the",[20,27],{},"\npopular vote within a state, and the electoral vote between states.",[10,30,31],{},[32,33,34],"a",{"href":34,"rel":35},"https:\u002F\u002Fweb.archive.org\u002Fweb\u002F20080923000039\u002Fhttps:\u002F\u002Fwww.msu.edu\u002F~sheppa28\u002Felections.html",[36],"nofollow",[10,38,39],{},"How about some illustrations?",[10,41,42,43,45],{},"Well the 2000 election had the smallest number of votes determine the swing...",[20,44],{},"\nall in florida of course, 269 votes would have changed the outcome.",[10,47,48,49,51,52,54,55,57],{},"In contrast, to change the results of the 1972 Nixon-McGovern election you'd",[20,50],{},"\nchange votes in 26 states starting with Alaska and working your way down the",[20,53],{},"\nlist. You'd have to change over 3 million votes to do it the most efficient way",[20,56],{},"\npossible.",[10,59,60,61,63,64,66,67,69,70,72,73,75,76,78],{},"So I'm looking at this site, which contains all sorts of information about",[20,62],{},"\nwhich states influenced which elections and so on... and I start looking for",[20,65],{},"\nDC. 'Cause I live and I vote in DC. But it's not in there. I shoot off an email",[20,68],{},"\nto the author of the site, and he replies, says that the site only includes",[20,71],{},"\ninformation on states that could have changed the election. Well I wrote back",[20,74],{},"\nand pointed out that every single other state was in there... and that zero",[20,77],{},"\npercent is still a number!",[10,80,81,82,84,85,87,88,90,91,93],{},"Well he must've seen the light because he put DC on there. Wayyyy down at the",[20,83],{},"\nbottom you can see it. 11 elections and zero influence. See the people in DC",[20,86],{},"\nare a stubborn lot, and by the time you changed enough votes here to actually",[20,89],{},"\nchange the overall DC vote... well you'd have already changed a whole lot of",[20,92],{},"\nother states. It's not worth the effort to mess with DC's votes at all.",[10,95,96,97,99,100,102,103,105,106,108],{},"So. In a time where people feel like their vote doesn't count. In a time where",[20,98],{},"\nvoting fraud has become a mere matter of software update... and where our",[20,101],{},"\nleaders seem as disconnected as ever from the will of the people.... at this",[20,104],{},"\ntime when I really really want my vote to count... this is when I realize that",[20,107],{},"\nmy individual vote means less than anybody else's!",[10,110,111,112,114,115,117,118,120],{},"Taxation without representation",[20,113],{},"\nBut you ain't seen nothin yet",[20,116],{},"\n'cause way over in the District",[20,119],{},"\nMy vote's already set",[10,122,123,124,126,127,129,130,132],{},"Why can't we be a swing state?",[20,125],{},"\nI just want to be heard,",[20,128],{},"\nit's getting just a little old,",[20,131],{},"\nto show the whitehouse the bird",[10,134,135,136,138,139,141,142,144],{},"It's not that I disagree,",[20,137],{},"\nIt's satisfaction that I seek,",[20,140],{},"\nThe chance to make a difference,",[20,143],{},"\nI want the chance to speak,",[10,146,147,148,150,151,153,154,156],{},"So I've got a tricky plan",[20,149],{},"\nto get us into play,",[20,152],{},"\na little less than half of you",[20,155],{},"\njust vote some other way",{"title":158,"searchDepth":159,"depth":159,"links":160},"",2,[],"2008-10-06T17:45-04:00",false,"md",null,{},true,"\u002Ftalking-dc-vote-blues",{"title":5,"description":12},[170],"music","2020-03-03T16:45-05:00","4RnvDjiC-Gxne5Tez-qh3QDYon8wkm1H8gWICkF-gKQ",1778988315152]